Performance
The performance has been tested on the Intel Coffee Lake platform which contains the i7-8086K processor and the ASRock Z390 Phantom Gaming-ITX/ac motherboard. In addition, we have used 16GB Patriot Viper Steel DDR4-4400 RAM, Gigabyte RTX2060 graphics card and Enermax Platimax D.F. 750W PSU.
Let’s begin as usual with the ATTO Disk Benchmark.
Results in sequential bandwidth are similar to what we could previously see on the 480GB version of the BX500 drive. 560GB/s is about maximum possible bandwidth on the SATA controller. Both results in low and high queue depth are pretty good, even comparing to the most expensive SATA SSD on the market.
Not a big difference is also in CrystalDiskMark. Up to 560MB/s sequential read and 520MB/s sequential write so about the same as BX500 480GB.
Low queue 4K read is still high but the lower capacity drive was slightly faster.
4KiB Q8T8 and Q32T1 are used more in servers and more complicated environment. If you are planning to use the drive for a typical home and office work then it shouldn’t matter much. This is the main reason why the top SSD series are more expensive. If you really need much faster storage then the Crucial P1 will be perfect for you.
Results based on popular applications and less demanding games are pretty good for a budget series SSD. Below we can see results based on PCMark 8.
Below is also a result in Performance Test 9. I’ve added it to the test list to show something a bit different than usual.
Results are slightly below declared speed but as we can see in CrystalDiskMark, every test and file size offer different performance. In this case, it’s high enough to say that the drive performs well.
On the next page, we will take a closer look at the results with the Momentum Cache. It’s one of the unique features that Crucial drives offer.
